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Snow World Hyderabad

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Snow World is a snow theme park, situated near to Hussain Sagar Tank Bund and Indra park. This, India’s first and World’s best snow theme park helps to experience snow fall and polar climate as if it is a polar region.

Temperature within the snow area is in between -5 and 0 Degree Centigrades. A snow session duration is about one hour. A person can come outside only after one complete snow session. Snow World authorities will provide a snow wear for each individual. No mobiles or cameras are allowed inside.

Snow slide, Merry go round, Ice Bumber Car are some of the rides there to enjoy one hour. If you have an artist inside, there is ‘Ice Carving’ for You. Snow war will also increase your excitements.

There are eight snow sessions each day and a half hour interval is in between two consecutive sessions.

Visitors should report at the venue half-an-hour before the session time.
Entry tickets are priced at Rs 200 for persons between 2’ to 4.5’ height and Rs 250 for persons above 4.5’ height.

Snow world is the first snow theme park and a great attraction place in India. It is the biggest snow park in the whole world. Snow Park sprawls over 17,000 sq feet area. It is located on Lower Tank Bunk Road, behind Indira Park. There is some entry charges conducted as Rs 200/- per hour for children and Rs 250/- per hour for adults. Batches are gone in this for one hour and in one batch about three hundred people are allowed. By using art technology, in this snow park, artificially snow is produced and allowed to fall which almost offers a real look.

In the snow world, there is a “Cryo Zone” which includes igloos, alpine forest, some figures of polar bears, penguins and some other attractions made with the help of artificially produced snow. The snow is made of safe elements as mineral water quality water and there will be no harmful effects of this snow. At the time of entry, to all the customers waterproof shoes, gloves and some warm clothes is provided by the park members so as to protect from the cold climate inside due to continues falling of snow. To all the visitors, a sweltering hot soup is also served.

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India might lose “patience” with repeat attack – U.S.

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Green Zone in Baghdad in this December... india may lose its diplomatic restraint with Pakistan after any repeat Mumbai-style attack and militants in the region may use this to provoke the two rivals to war, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday.

“I think it’s not unreasonable to assume Indian patience would be limited were there to be further attacks,” Gates told reporters on a trip to New Delhi aimed at broadening U.S. ties with the emerging Asian giant.

Gates’ comments highlight widespread fears among many diplomats that a second attack could provoke India to retaliate against Pakistan, further destabilising the region and putting U.S. plans for peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan in jeopardy.

His visit comes as Washington tries to strengthen its ties with New Delhi despite fears a stronger Indian presence in the region, especially in Afghanistan, could undermine peace efforts by annoying Pakistan.

“What we talked about at some length is the syndicate of different terrorist groups and how they put all of the countries in the region — Afghanistan, Pakistan, India — at risk,” Gates said.

“This operation under the umbrella of al Qaeda working with all of these different groups is intended to destabilise not just Afghanistan or not just Pakistan but potentially the whole region by provoking a conflict perhaps between India and Pakistan.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resisted domestic pressure to attack Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Instead, New Delhi has focused on pressuring Pakistan to crack down on militants blamed for the raids on India’s financial hub.

New Delhi is increasingly frustrated at what it sees as Islamabad’s failure to bring the masterminds of the attacks to justice. It blames militants belonging to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group for the attacks which killed 166 people.

GROWING CLASHES

A growing number of clashes in disputed Kashmir this month and cross-border firing have also added to worries of increased tension between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

Gates is also seeking to strengthen military ties with India. For decades, India had close military links with the former Soviet Union, but under Singh New Delhi has moved closer to the United States.

But there is still scepticism among many Indian policy makers that Washington is primarily focused on supporting rival Pakistan in its battle against Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

While Pakistan may be a top diplomatic priority, India carries increasing weight.

India is one of the biggest donors to Afghanistan, with $1.2 billion in aid, and is also the world’s 10th largest defence spender, set to spend more than $50 billion over the next five years to modernise its armed forces.

U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co said this month the Indian Air Force was interested in acquiring 10 C-17 aircraft, in a deal Indian defence ministry officials say is potentially worth more than $2 billion.

Last August, India started field trials to buy 126 multi-role fighter jets.

Gates called on India to sign a defence pact to allow sales of more sophisticated U.S. arms to India.

A key element in the pact would allow Washington to check that India was using any arms for the purposes intended and was preventing the technology from leaking to others.

“It is not an unreasonable request and at the end of the day it is focused on protecting technology of both India and the United States,” Gates said.

(Additional reporting Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Alistair Scrutton and Paul Tait)

(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, click http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)

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India need eight wickets more to win Chittagong Test

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Chittagong, Jan 20 (IANS) Gautam Gambhir smashed his fifth Test century on the trot to join a select band of cricketers as India pinned down Bangladesh on the fourth day of the first Test here Wednesday.

Set a tough victory target of 415 runs, Bangladesh lost two wickets for 67 runs and are 348-runs behind. Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma took one wicket each. Tamim Iqbal (23) and Mohammad Ashraful (16) were at the crease.

Gambhir joins Sir Donald Bradman, Jacques Kallis and Mohammad Yousuf who have scored five hundreds in successive Tests. Bradman, in fact, has scored six in a row.

Gambhir has overtaken his teammate Rahul Dravid who has scored four successive Test hundreds.

India declared the second innings at 413 for eight with Gambhir scoring a fluent 116 off 129 balls while VVS Laxman (69) and Amit Mishra (50) chipping in to swell the total.

India, who were shot out for 243 in the first innings, made amends in the second knock after the bowlers had showed them the way, packing off Bangladesh for 242 Tuesday.

Resuming at 122/1 Wednesday, India scored 137 runs in the morning session from 31.4 overs. Left-handed Gambhir was in full flow hitting some delightful strokes through the

off side.

Gambhir got good support from night watchman Mishra, who scored his maiden Test half-century. Gambhir and Mishra added 98 runs for the second wicket.

Gambhir had been India’s most reliable batsman in recent times and four of his five centuries, including this knock, have come in the second innings, all in different conditions and circumstances in either pulling India out of trouble or setting up the game.

Mishra was the first to be dismissed in the morning when he charged down the track, trying to clear mid-off, but was caught by Tamim Iqbal off Mahmudullah. His 70-ball 50 had six fours.

Gambhir got a life when he was dropped on 55. He was finally dismissed while attempting a cut shot but finding Shariar Nafees at third man off debutant pacer Shafiul Islam. Gambhir’s 129-ball knock had 10 fours and one six.

Dravid made a 50-ball 24 before he was run out just before lunch.

Laxman then guided India’s batting with an 89-ball 69 with the help of five fours.

India lost the wickets of Sachin Tendulkar (16), Yuvraj Singh (25) and Dinesh Karthik (27) after lunch but Laxman stayed solid at the other end facing 72 balls for his 50.

Zaheer Khan (20) struck three fours in an over off Shaiful, coming on with the second new ball, just before tea.

India led by 385 runs at tea and added another 28 before calling off the innings.

Indo Asian News Service

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India tells U.S.: we’re willing to boost Afghan aid

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) speaks with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates during their meeting... Indian leaders told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates they were willing to increase aid to Afghanistan, during talks on Tuesday that also raised shared concerns about Islamist militants, U.S. officials said.

Gates’ Jan 19-21 trip to New Delhi comes as the United States deploys an additional 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Washington has been trying to get allies do more for the Afghan effort.

India is already one of the biggest donors in Afghanistan. But its influence — with more than $1 billion in aid from highway construction to new consulates — is viewed with suspicion in Pakistan.

“India indicated a willingness to contribute more,” said a senior U.S. defence official, briefing reporters after the talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna.

The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said India’s offer would not expand aid to new areas and “was caveated with: if ISAF and the United States think it would be helpful.”

Relations between India and Pakistan have been strained since India suspended a peace process with Pakistan after the 2008 assault on Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants.

Last month, Gates told a U.S. Senate hearing he believed al Qaeda was providing those militants targeting information to plot attacks in India, with the goal of triggering an India-Pakistan conflict that would destabilize Pakistan.

Asked what India wanted from the United States to help combat al Qaeda-linked militants in the region, the U.S. official said: “to stay the course.”

The United States, Gates said in the talks, was not going to leave the region — despite a 2011 U.S. target date to begin drawing down U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

“As the military component of the counter-insurgency effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan achieves success our economic and our political components of our engagement will rise in comparison,” the official said.

GROWING DEFENCE SALES

Gates, the U.S. official said, also raised the importance of further building defence trade with India.

Currently the world’s 10th largest defence spender, India is looking to spend more than $50 billion over the next five years to modernize its armed forces.

“He stressed repeatedly that we desire to have an ever increasing relationship in this area with India and to have ever increasing levels of transactions,” the official said.

U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co said this month the Indian Air Force was interested in acquiring 10 C-17 aircraft, in a deal Indian defence ministry officials say is potentially worth more than $2 billion.

Last August, India started field trials to buy 126 multi-role fighter jets.

Gates, in an editorial in the Times of India newspaper published on Tuesday, noted the need to finalize bilateral agreements, including on technology transfer, to deepen trade relations.

“Not getting these agreements signed is an obstacle to Indian access to the very highest level of technology which they’re interested in,” Gates said. “And so we will be pursuing those agreements.”

(Editing by Myra MacDonald)

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